“A few years ago, the idea that savvy developers and IT
professionals would need to know anything about intellectual
property law would have been dismissed as a bad joke. Oh,
certainly, there were arguments from time to time over fine points
in the GPL Version 2, but for the most part, it didn’t matter.“Then along came SCO with its lawsuit against IBM and its
challenges to the legality of Linux, and everything changed…”
Software Freedom Law Center to Host Legal Summit
By
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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